Your Turn: April 23

Beacon Hill Elementary School dates back to 1915. A reader says it makes no sense for the district to teach historic preservation, but not pratice it.

Beacon Hill Elementary School dates back to 1915. A reader says it makes no sense for the district to teach historic preservation, but not pratice it.

Photo: Billy Calzada /Staff Photographer

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Beacon Hill Elementary School dates back to 1915. A reader says it makes no sense for the district to teach historic preservation, but not pratice it.

Beacon Hill Elementary School dates back to 1915. A reader says it makes no sense for the district to teach historic preservation, but not pratice it.

Photo: Billy Calzada /Staff Photographer

Your Turn: April 23

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Teach it —and do it

The San Antonio Independent School District board recently agreed to add “cultural heritage” to its curriculum. It’s meant to instill a preservation attitude in students in exchange for permission from City Council to demolish a 100-year-old school building — one that should have been preserved because of its historic values.

School board members: What ever happened to practice what you teach?

Ron P. Soele

Breaking the bank

Well, for all the Beto O’Rourke lovers out there, it just proves once again the hypocrisy of the Democrats.

He sure seems to push quality for all and helping the poor, but when he’s donated $1,166 with an annual income of over $350,000, his oral bull excrement starts to pile high. Practice what you preach, O’Rourke.

Kamala Harris didn’t exactly break any donation records either.

Larry Kovalchik, Boerne

Don’t judge handicap

Re: “Handicaps suspect,” by Fred Machado, Your Turn, Wednesday:

Are there people who don’t deserve or need handicap plates? Maybe, but let me say this, Mr. Machado: Handicap placards/plates are prescribed by doctors and are given on an as-needed medical basis. We do not all have limps or missing limbs.

I still walk upright, without a limp, and do so to keep my body working and my heart pumping. I do this with the aid of a heart medication. I have lived through six heart attacks, a quintuple bypass and six heart stents. When I walk for exercise, you cannot see that my hips, knees and ankles are causing pain. You can see my smile, perhaps, if you would look my way.

I leave you with two thoughts: Don’t judge a book by its cover. And don’t judge anyone without first walking a mile in their shoes.